So, what're you playing?

[Sky]

it seems to be very luck dependent in the events you run into, which is mildly irritating at times.

Life is mostly about mitigating the whims of fortune.

[Bann]

feel kinda done with 1.7.10

I'm a fan of HQMs, if you haven't tried Blightfall yet, it's probably my overall favorite MC experience

I heard something else about Blightfall right around the same time you made this post and decided to check it out. It's amazing. I've never really done any minecraft mods before, so its been wave after wave of  moments. I cannot recall being this interested in a game in a long, long time. Thank you so much for piquing my interest in this.

[Sky]

I've never really done any minecraft mods before

GET TO THE MINECRAFT SUBFORUM

[Tairnyn]

Add me to the Blightfalli list, it's scratching my itches. All the fun of skyblock, with a lovingly crafted world map. Thaumcraft can go screw though, hate that initial aspect research bottleneck.

[koro]

There's a Minecraft subforum?

[Signe]

The last two days I've been playing Torchlight 2 with mods offline because our internet was down expect for a little hot spot box.  It was fun enough. 

Fios said it was squirrels and they had to replace a whole section of fiber.  One of the men said he could feel the squirrels gnawing when he touched the cable.  I don't believe him.  He's either lying or there's some sort of deeper conspiracy going on.  Personally, I think he's lying but I don't know why.  Mysterious. 

[luckton]

Got into the WoW: Legion beta yesterday. Demon Hunters are pretty swank. If only the server would stop disconnecting me every 5-8 minutes.

[Ard]

Add me to the Blightfalli list, it's scratching my itches. All the fun of skyblock, with a lovingly crafted world map. Thaumcraft can go screw though, hate that initial aspect research bottleneck.

Yeah, me too.  I still prefer Regrowth, but I've been waiting for the next patch for that since like February. 

[Sky]

I'm Regrowthing currently, nice exposure to a few mods I haven't messed with (Witchery, Mariculture, Bees) and tweaks to others (Tinkers, which I only learned in Blightfall!).

Love HQM.

Also Stellaris, which is stellar. Hah.

[Tairnyn]

Regrowth lost me with the strong dependency on magic crops for almost everything. Found myself spending almost all of my time breeding seeds and managing a farm to generate raw materials. HQM is a must-have for me these days, even in packs that don't have it by default (using Requiem HQM on those). It helps alleviate my decision paralysis when multiple mod progression paths open up.

[Sky]

Regrowth lost me with the strong dependency on magic crops for almost everything. Found myself spending almost all of my time breeding seeds and managing a farm to generate raw materials. HQM is a must-have for me these days, even in packs that don't have it by default (using Requiem HQM on those). It helps alleviate my decision paralysis when multiple mod progression paths open up.

I tend to be suboptimal with the method I learned on the f13 server, first time we ran Agricraft. I just plant a massive line of cross-crop sticks and let them grow over time by themselves. It's my third (of the last four modpacks) farm-based setup, so I didn't notice it all that much, really.

My biggest head-slap was not looking at some common recipes to find they replaced redstone with levers! I would've been way farther ahead if I hadn't waited for redstone crops.

[Falconeer]

I have no time to play anything until the end of the month. Yet, I tried Atlas Reactor for 10 minutes over the free weekend and got hooked. Simultanous 4v4 turn-based combat? Yes please. This is really cool.

[apocrypha]

I gave Stellaris a try, couldn't get into it. I'll give it another go when I'm less engrossed in Kerbal Space Program. In which, this week, the Kraken ate my orbital space station.

[Yegolev]

I'm still plugging away at Pirate's Creed.  This game is so much more awesome than an Assassin's Creed game.  I know people here have mentioned that it was the best of the series but I feel like that statement is misleading.  I'm not playing an assassin, I'm playing a pirate who happens to sometimes sneak.  Mostly in that one mission.  Otherwise it's pirate scimitars and hand canons half the time, and broadsides and mainsails the other half.

[Sky]

I've only played a few minutes of the very first AC. Tempted to get into the series a bit, I think I read something about III, Black Flag and one other title all being good to play together in some order?

[Hawkbit]

I've played all the major releases, at least halfway through, except Unity. Here's how I would play them:

AC: read a spoiler page for the story, maybe find the last 10min of the game on youtube.
AC2-1: Good game, might be a bit dated now.
AC2-2: Okay-ish game, good story, dated, bloated.
AC2-3: Bad-ish. Read the story.
AC3: Read the story.
AC4: Great, worth a play.
AC4-Rogue: Great, worth a play but has last-gen graphics even on PC.
ACUnity - didn't play. I never even bothered to read the story.
ACSyndicate: Good, worth playing but it's almost too big and bloated, I never finished it and likely won't.

Anywhere I say 'read the story', only do that if you give a shit at all. The overall story is bad. In fact, I recommend you pretend you played them but do something better with your time, like playing Bridge with old ladies or scrubbing toilets. Both of those would have been better uses of my time.

[Nebu]

Playing DAoC again on Uthgard emulator.  It's mindless fun and a nice break from tanks and HotS.

[Sky]

I've played all the major releases, at least halfway through, except Unity. Here's how I would play them:

I meant I read that there were 3 that were played well as a trilogy kind of thing. III Black Flag and Syndicate? I can't find the link.

[Kail]

I've played all the major releases, at least halfway through, except Unity. Here's how I would play them:

I meant I read that there were 3 that were played well as a trilogy kind of thing. III Black Flag and Syndicate? I can't find the link.

As far as I know, the "arcs" generally go:

Desmond arc: AC1, AC2, AC Brotherhood, AC Revelations, AC3 (in that order)
Sage arc: AC4, AC Unity, AC Rogue (in that order, I think, though I haven't played Rogue yet)

Not sure where syndicate goes, since I haven't played it yet.

Edit: that's for storyline arcs, though, if you want gameplay, AC3, AC4 and AC Rogue are the ones with boats.

[Yegolev]

I've played/seen enough Unity and Syndicate.  Syndicate has a grapple and is therefore superior to Unity.  My wife loves Syndicate but that isn't really an endorsement.

Edward Kenway is the Carl "CJ" Johnson of AssCreed games.

[Sky]

He had one job to do?

[Paelos]

AC3 is fucking terrible. Do not play it. DO NOT. If you want the reasons why look up the thread and watch as two of us played it independently at different times months apart. And it was still fucking awful.

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[HaemishM]

Wasn't AssCreed 3 the one with Rape Horse?

[Paelos]

Wasn't AssCreed 3 the one with Rape Horse?

Indeed it was.

[Viin]

Any recommendations for a good PC game that uses a controller? (and no I won't do an FPS with a controller, heathen!)

Been having fun in Rocket League but could use something else ..

[Merusk]

Darksiders was unplayable with KB & M for me, but worked well with a controller. I enjoyed it for the few hours I played it, I just am not gaming much anymore.

[Yegolev]

That is an amazing question.  I use a controler with all my emulated PS2 games.  Also, controller is ~95% for that weeaboo diablo game whose name I forget.

[Rasix]

Both Witcher 2 and 3 played better on controller.  Shadow Complex (remastered) just hit Steam.  That was a fine game and I imagine is better played with controller than KB/M.

[apocrypha]

Well, handy given the last few posts prior to yours, but the AC games are pretty good with a controller. Well, AC2 is, which is the only one I've played 

Also anything Diablo-like would be good, e.g. Torchlight I/II. I'd guess that Fallout 3/NV/4 are OK too since their interface is designed with consoles in mind, ditto any of the Batman games. Also the Lego games. And any of the Telltale games, Walking Dead etc. Oh and Dark/Demons Souls ofc - actually better with a controller than mouse/kb.

Vanilla/Pocket Edition Minecraft is fine with a controller once you get used to it, but definitely not modded MC, waaaayyy too many keyboard controls needed.

[Sky]

Witcher, GTA, Fallout, Just Cause, Saint's Row, South Park, Tomb Raider, Batman, How To Survive, State of Decay, Mark of the Ninja, Dark Souls, Hitman, any racing stuff. Et cetera.

[Kail]

Just about any driving or fighting game works better with a controller, and most platformers.

So stuff like Shovel Knight or Street Fighter or Fez or Mortal Kombat

Obviously the retro stuff, too, like the Megaman and Sega stuff on Steam.

Stuff like GTA or Saint's Row I generally use a controller for the driving and a mouse for the on foot bits.  Darksiders and AC are good for controllers, too.  The one thing that makes them a huge pain for mouse and keyboard is that there's like one or two bits in every game where the game takes camera control away from the player to show them where they need to jump next, but at that camera position the jump is at such an angle that it doesn't line up with where your character will move if you push WASD.

[Sky]

I used to hybrid for open world GTA type stuff, but with lock-on shooting the controller does fine. A few places it's suboptimal, but the controller is best for most of the game, so I deal with it.

[Torinak]

Any recommendations for a good PC game that uses a controller? (and no I won't do an FPS with a controller, heathen!)

Been having fun in Rocket League but could use something else ..

You might want to look into something like JoyToKey (or the older Joy2Mouse) for use with games that don't have native support for a controller. I've found it works pretty well for anything that doesn't require fast and precise targeting (i.e., not FPS), especially after you spend some time experimenting with different configurations and acceleration options. The "shift button" or alternate control scheme options add a lot of versatility, so you can easily map 30-40 functions to the controller. Be warned that it can take a fair amount of time to configure them to your liking for a given game.

[Viin]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

I got "mouse finger" awhile a back, so I had to lay off using the mouse and started playing with my controller more. Now I'm trying to continue that but while using a stationary recumbent bike.

Though I kinda want to play Overwatch once it comes out ..

[Yegolev]

what